GRIFIN STYLUS IS A NO-NONSENSE APPROACH TO A CAPACITIVE STYLUS. It does nothing in a spectacular fashion, yet is does everything “good enough” for most users. It feels like a short ballpoint pen, it has a nice pen clip and a spongy silicon tip. Apps like Sketchbook Mobile, Note Everything and Handwrite will be used to judge the overall qualities of the stylus. Capacitive touchscreens won’t react to just anything like resistive touchscreens will, as they are designed to react to the electric impulses in our skin. That’s why you need to use special materials for creating a compatible stylus, and the result is that capacitive styli have rubber pads on the end. I did a little bit of research before ordering the Griffin Stylus and it seems that the “original” capacitive stylus, the Pogo, is being reported by many to disintegrate after a few months use. In other words, the rubber tip falls apart. The Griffin Stylus got good reviews, so I ordered one off eBay.
This isn’t a terribly complicated device so as far as a review goes there isn’t an awful lot to say about it. It’s shaped like a pen, though smaller than a normal ballpoint, and it even has a lanyard hole and a pocket clip. The body seems to be made of anodized aluminum, which means it should be quite sturdy (not that a stylus is something that normally takes a lot of beatings anyways). It’s not trying to be revolutionary ergonomic, but it’s quite comfortable to use, and a big step up from most resistive touchscreen styli which are (were) often much thinner in order to fit inside the devices they came with. The tip is obviously not as pointed as resistive touchscreen styli are, but still quite easy to use. You just need to gently touch the screen and the device will react. The same can’t be said for many Chinese knockoff styli which often hardly works or don’t work at all. In other words, don’t cheap out when it comes to buying a capacitive stylus.
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